Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...locations, carrying signs reading "Cars or People," "Save the Charles for Our Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...
...Cornelia Wheeler, member of the Cambridge Civic Association, said she was primarily concerned about the "implied threat to all of Cambridge's use of the river." Bernays commented that an expressway would be a virtual wall between Harvard and the Charles...
...underpasses and overpasses on the drive. But Edward L. Bernays, organizer of the Citizens' Emergency Committee, said it was generally believed that the MDC will stagger construction of the underpasses to cushion public resentment and ultimately announce that the entire drive will be widened and made into an expressway, necessitating the destruction of the sycamore trees which line...
Meanwhile, a tentative route through Somerville and Cambridge for the Inner Belt expressway, an eight-lane highway connecting various parts of greater Boston, was revealed yesterday. Once the Inner Belt is completed, it will be linked up with the Massachusetts Turnpike, which will have an exit adjacent to Cambridge in Allston...
There is seaminess as well as glitter in Bombay. Air India's Boeing jets coming into Santa Cruz airport swoop low over miserable mud and bamboo huts, where the air is fetid with the stomach churning odors of cow dung, urine and rotting humanity. The broad, smooth expressway from the airport into Bombay is lined with dismal rows of tenements, where more than a million people are crammed in small, single rooms and share whatever toilets exist with dozens of neighbors. One of every 66 Bombay residents has no home at all-except for the dark undersides of staircases...